Player Features and Ideas Discussion

CCP -

Here's the best idea I've had yet for improving the game.


Make a note of the user names of all the angry people who post here vilifying your programmers for any small bugs, who complain endlessly about any change they don't like, and who post abusive responses to other people's ideas and thoughts on the game. Then use that list to ignore every last one of them permanently. Also consider a temporary ban on their accounts.

I believe that overall the quality of experience for players in the game (especially new players) would improve greatly without this particular demographic being included in your player base.

Additionally, such venom and anger regarding something as trivial as an online game would seem to indicate they have an unhealthy dependency on playing Eve in their lives, and very likely some time off from the game would do them a world of good.


Cordially,

Liet Ormand

I don't want to hand out anything. I'm just a player.

Rather, I'm suggesting an idea (somewhat facetiously) to point out through the use of humor that many people here are rather negative toward their fellow players and posters simply because they can be, even though this is against the rules of this section of the board.

It's unfortunately the case that a very vocal part of this community sees nothing wrong with tearing other people down publicly or otherwise because they feel the time they have invested in game or on these forums gives them the right to do so.

Even your own post has a rather condescending and aggressive tone, though I am not sure you intended that.

I am attempting only to make this sort of attitude more visible, in the hopes that at least one person will read this and check their own behavior.

Thank you for the example. I believe your own words and attitude express the problem far more eloquently than I could myself.

Yes his counter proposal is eloquent and to the point. It highlights an issue we see often.

This is hilarious in its own special way, especially since I seem to have been the "worst offender" in his threads, looking at his history.

Although I can't seem to find a single instance of any "Abusive responses" in his threads, even including those responses not from me. Plenty of people disagreeing with him and explaining why, which really should be expected in a forum designed for discussion and debate of proposals.

Perhaps, but what I was referring to is his sense of entitlement toward the game and his attitude toward other people. Even in this thread he's essentially ripping into me for daring to criticize his behavior when I haven't actually mentioned him by name or otherwise pointed out anyone at all.

I guess if the shoe fits, wear it.

It occurred to me that this part of your proposal could be applied to the proposal itself (mind=blown, btw):
Why else would permabans to people you don't like be the 'Best idea yet to improve the game'? Umad?

I found one, it's at the top of this page.

ISD's do this already, but they use their own judgment, not ours.

I've been trying to make the same point you have OP for a while now, but it's no use. Looking through this thread we can see just how willfully delusional the forum regulars on here can be.

People are actually claiming that abusive posts don't happen, and that the ISD take care of it. Complete non-sense. You have to be willfully blind if you don't think the abuse and childish, aggressive criticism of posters and their ideas is rampant and non-addressed. It's why few people care to post here outside of the chest-beating neckbeards that frequent this place.

The post above me is a simple but easy example of this. Posters like this use the internet in a desperate attempt feel better about themselves by attacking and abusing others, and this place is a nest for them unfortunately.

I am unsure if CCP are unaware that the forum rules are not being enforced in a grand fashion, or if they put those rules in for some kind of legal reason with no actual intent on enforcing them. Either way, threads like this never work. Utilize your block list and when you see abuse and childish posting occur, make the shiptoasters feel bad by pointing out how sad their lives must be for them to respond like that about an idea or discussion about a video game. Some of them actually stop doing it when you make them reflect like that.